Posts Tagged ‘Supreme Court’
Landmark Ruling From SCOTUS
Today marked a landmark ruling from SCOTUS. However, the most impactful today’s ruling regarding same-sex marriages was not the only significant ruling this week. Today’s ruling will end same-sex marriage bans. The 5-4 split turned on Justice Kennedy’s majority OBERGEFELL Opinion. Kennedy’s twenty-eight-page opinion begins with a vast historical background of marriage and the law’s development…
Read MoreSCOTUS Announces It Will Not Hear Same-Sex Marriage Cases This Term
This morning SCOTUS announced it will not hear any of the seven same-sex marriage cases as requested from the lower Circuits. This likely means that there will be a spike in State’s that recognize same-sex marriages, particularly in the Circuits where these petitions for certiorari originated from. This is primarily because the States in those circuits are now bound…
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